Gymkhana Series and Dream Catcher

Today was the final Buckle Series gymkhana.

Heather did AWESOME.

She took first for the day

YIPPEE!!

Josh giving her some pointers

and pumping up Cheyenne.

fellow Saddle Club kids

with Wonder Girl and Heather

waiting their turns.

Honey and Wonder Girl did great today.

See the sweaty eyes?

These horses are earning their feed quite nicely!

Honey and Cheyenne were actually dripping sweat today!

Heather showing off the EXCELLENT trophy

that she earned for SECOND place in the Buckle Series.

All Smiles!

This is how Josh feels about it:

all giddy!

We are so proud of Heather.

She really has come along way in her riding.

Even from the beginning of the series,

she is a completely different rider.

She has really only been riding for less than a year

and doing this well already...

One more,

just cause we are proud parents!

Hailey and Payton also got awards.

They competed in only 1 of the gymkhana's

and the family hosting the event wanted something for everyone.

Payton

Hailey

Sydney from Bitless Horse

had a contest a while back.

I took 2nd place in it. (Yay me!)

I won a handmade dream catcher.

It is so gorgeous!

and it matches my house perfectly!

Look at that handy work.

I can't wait to get it hung!

Thank you Sydney!!!!

And, of course Halloween.

We did it small this year.

Savannah and Jasmine

all dressed up and ready to

Trick-or-Treat

Payton, Heather and Hailey

ready to chase Savannah and Jasmine

around asking for candy!

How Do We Do it?

Heather got it too.

when I picked her up from school today

she was crying because her legs

hurt so bad.

I felt sorry for her

and told her that

she should have told her teacher

and I would have picked her up!

Tomorrow - day 4 that I am missing from school.

Thank goodness

I have a wonderful student teacher

that I can trust with the kids!

With that being said,

I have 5 sick kids

one sick husband

and me.

How do I keep it all straight??

who had what meds,

what is their temp,

what time did they take it?

This is my system.

Let me show you up close.

Heathers page

temp, time, what she took.

after a while it will look like this.

times, temps and meds.

this is the only way that I can keep it straight in my brain.

especially when I am one of the sick ones.

these also play a major role in my day

We have only had the white one for years

today my wonderful husband

bought two more.

what a genius!

Now I can measure 3 girls at the same time.

We have used a LOT of this:

for Jasmine and Savannah

and this:

for the bigger kids.

So far:

Savannah is fine still

thank goodness!!

Jasmine finally quit running a fever

earlier in the day.

Hailey's fever has been very low.

Payton's fever has been in

the high 101's.

Heather is just starting

and running at 100.

Carina - nothing yet.

Josh, finally can breathe

and is moving around.

Me, well,

no fever, just a cough lingering

from the bronchitis.

So, since we have all gotten it already,

we should be flu sick free for the season.

Gymkhana on Sunday=

hopefully Heather is in top shape=

my plan is that she can roll through it like Savannah did.

B.U.S.Y. with sick

We haven't had the time to work

with Kusco yet.

Things have been a little bit chaotic

around here...

Savannah started running a fever on Friday

and got up to 103.2 degrees.

no other symptoms

just a high fever.

She is fine now, and fever free since yesterday.

Jasmine started on Saturday

thought she was going to run through it like

Savannah,

and today she got worse.

She woke up this morning with 104.2 degrees

and choking on her own flem.

Took her to the dr.

she has Bronchitis.

I started on Sunday

hit 102 degrees

yesterday

went to the dr.

I have Bronchitis.

Josh started his fever on Monday

with body aches all over, to point of wanting to cry.

He went to the dr. today with Jasmine.

Bronchitis and H1N1!

Hailey woke up this morning crying because her knees hurt

and fever of 101.6 degrees.

Guess I will be taking her in later today.

Dr. said the biggest sign of H1N1 is

body aches.

and they can only treat it in the first 24 hrs.

Foster kid came home from school yesterday with a fever,

but today nothing.

keeping my fingers crossed on this one.

Only healthy kids at this house

Heather

Payton

I guess 2 out of 6 isn't too bad!!

So maybe this weekend we can work with Kusco.

Also, Sunday is the final gymkhana for the buckle series,

the one the Heather has a good shot for the Buckle.

I hope that if she gets whatever fever thing that

we all got, she is done with it by Sun!

**UPDATE**

Payton got it.

Today after school

fever and achy.

So, just Heather left.

So, My Husband Went to The Auction

Does that sound like the start of a joke???

Well, Josh went to the local auction on Saturday and

you never know what he is going to bring home.

Sometimes he says he will get one horse and

he comes home with 3 or 4.

Ya never know what he is going to call and say he got.

Well, I got a call about 3 yesterday and of course he bought something.

Do you want to guess!?!

what do you see Jasmine?

Josh getting him out of the trailer.

what a cute face!

lots of curiosity from the goats.

meet Kusco.

he is an alpaca.

I know what you are thinking.

And I probably thought the same thing.

but, he is really cute.

we put him in with the goats

to see how he would do.

all the alpaca sites we have found

completely contradict each other.

Some say it is OK to have 1, some say it isn't.

We are experimenting.

he isn't really people friendly yet

but he will be!

checking out the dogs

Midnight and Cookie

showing him who is boss

around this pen.

So far he is pretty funny to watch.

I will try and get some more pictures

of him with the kids.

REALLY?!?

It's October!

I know that I really shouldn't complain.

Some of you are freezing

with lots of snow.

But really??

Can't we have a fall/autumn this year?